But try telling that to Fashion Nova, which is the latest online retailer to court controversy this Halloween ... Nova’s so-called geisha ensemble. The $50 costume kit comes with hair sticks ...

Social-media watchdogs are slamming the costume as cultural appropriation of the hallowed Japanese geisha tradition ... Seems like this year’s hottest Halloween prop may be a protest sign.

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Fashion Nova has received a barrage of criticism for selling a geisha costume, with some describing the outfit as “racially insensitive”. For many people, Halloween is a fantastic opportunity ...

Some common Halloween costumes simply take it too far and can become racist, misogynistic, and downright insensitive. From a convict to a geisha, keep scrolling to see 15 offensive costumes you ...

They’re familiar characters in the debate over controversial Halloween costumes ... to dress as a sexy anything: geisha or farmer’s daughter. “There are costumes that take both of those ...

Halloween and the Day of the Dead are not ... to paint your face for a “haunted” bar crawl. Many people don a geisha costume under the assumption that it's “exotic” and "sexy," and there ...

Many of us moms and dads grew up wearing Native American head dresses and Geisha garb and ... as her character for Halloween. However, Disney pulled its Maui costume two years earlier that ...

But Fashion Nova isn’t the only company selling geisha costumes. Spirit Halloween and HalloweenCostumes.com are two of the many other retailers that are attempting to cash in on these culturally ...

Were you ever an Indian for Halloween? Or a geisha girl? Did it ever occur to you that some may find such costumes racist or offensive? Our Senior Supervising Producer Teshima Walker -- an African ...

But as the U.S. gears up for Halloween ... costumes that included, “Wearing Native American headdresses, dressing up as a ‘Mexican’ by wearing a sombrero, dressing as a ‘geisha ...